Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-23

cut to initiate the ancient provincial
peasant caps. All capotes have strings
tied in small bow under the left ear.
| Much is said in fashion journals of the
return to the Directoire, but the size of
the tournure as seen in our streets give
| little encouragement to the idea that this
season will witness any decided change.
That epoch was marked by severe classic
caste, and it would be impossible TO
| imagine Madame Recsmier or other cele-
brsted women of her time in corsets CON-
pressing the vital organs, steels in skirts,
bustles amounting to deformities, and
| shoes whose pointed toes and high heels
are only suggestive of infinite torture.
Partisan correspondents insist in that city
| of modes that the change though gradual
is certain and is already marked
in the reduction OF the tournure.
In fact, the best dressmakers
| dispense with it altogether, using three
! steels in the dress skirt, even discardipg
the cushion which has been SO long worn.
There is some whispering that the petit
coat is doomed, its use to be superseded
by the bifurcated skirt. There is at pres
ent so much attention given to shapeli-
ness of the form, that those women who
| possess it oppose garment which CON-
pletely SlterS the figure and has the effect
OF charging the waist, and so brosdens
the hips as to mar just proportions.
There IS certsiDlY dawning an era
of good sense regulating many
of the requirements of dress,
and not the least of these
indications is the various inventions,
although most have proved failures, to
remove the restrictions enforced by the
old-fsshioned garter. a writer on dress
hygienfcslly considered, earnestly recon-
mends IS better than ali substitutes for
keeping the stocking smooth, s garter
made of silver spirals, and argues that
although the first cost may be more, they
will last lifetime, and by their elasticity
and easy adjustment to the movements OF
the muscles, answer the purpose designed
better than any other arrangement.
All the new dresses have trimming
round the armh6le. Some are in shape of q
short sleeve, others have merely gimp or
passementerie ornaments, and others
have full pouf Of different material
inserted in pear shape on the top of the
sleeve. This fashion is frequently
adopted in black silk dresses. The pouf
is of white silk with black lace over, or
of heliotrope, If either color appears on
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now seen cut on the cross; st first it was
only the tunic that was cross-cut, now
the whole dress must appear the same.
This fashion is much more trying to ana
teur dressmskers, who find great diff
Guilty In making the bars meet snd in
getting the skirt to hang straight, than
the plain up and down seams.
EVENING DRESSES.
The new evening dresses are all of
transparent kind, and spotted net in all
colors is much used. A new material
like stripes of gaGze between lace stripes
can also be mad in different colors, snd
makes very durable and pretty dress.
Flowers are much used as gsrnitures.
and the fashion of outlining the square
or V shaped bodice is gaining ground.
A maize colored net had leaves of the
Virginia creeper in autumn tints, closed,
laid one over the other, forming ruche
OF leaves, and one of the garlands
crossed over to the left side OF the bodice,
descending on the skirt TO hold, 8
group OF larger leaves and tendrile, the
various tints shading from green and |
gold, and scarlet and brown oyer the |
maize colored drapery formed an excep- |
tionally becoming dress to S beautiful |
brunette. Another dress in white tuIle |
over white silk had trimming of rose |
leaves in every shade OF green and brown. /
bunch Of roses on the left side of the /
bodice OF various tints, and two similar